Gosh, I was such a lurky lurker for the past 4 years that I honestly didnt realise what had happened to everybody. I'll pin my message to the corkboard and say how great it is to see everyone proving posting is the new lurking. So, I have met many Sinister people in the past 4 years; Helen McLean, Jimbo and Terry Boyle in Perth, Lawrence Mikkelsen in Auckland; also Rachel Fruitloop in LA. Thanks to those who accommodate a rogueish little 18 year old fresh out of school with no money and not an awful lot of anything else. Interspersed with these were some ATP rendezvous-es; Carsmile and a swell fellow this year have excellent festival taste, I look forward to meeting more sinister peoples at Camber Sands in the future... Times have changed, my original listy introducer Viks is finishing her 4th year at the Slade, UCL. I'm into my last year at Edinburgh Uni, having now been here three years (how many other Edinburghers are here? Or do you all go to the Glasgow picnics?) doing Social Anthropology; my dissertation is in poker, yip de doo. In the last year I had the pleasure of meeting Lawrence and his wife Vanessa again, when they toured the UK, also Krister who visited Edinburgh briefly, plus on my trip to NYC (as well as other bits of the USA) i met Martha. Hello to all there and thereabouts also! Ooh, hasn't a lot happened since I last posted. I have a confession, the last B&S record I bought was Storytelling, which i *didn't really* enjoy. And DCW is still awaiting a purchase, for shame. I missed the picnic action as i was away on a catering job this weekend, and i left my red underware behind. So I'm not doing very well, tut tut. Happy 8th birthday (belated), and I'm glad i've been around for 5.5ish of it, despite my quietness. You'd never guess i was quiet by the length of this (email). Or my [exceptionally Sinister-ish] smutty sense of humour. The upshot of being away on that catering job was that my bed for the weekend was in a house who owned a copy of TWATTYBUS, so in honour we played it twice on saturday. Until maybe the 10th? Anyone in edinburgh who wants to meet up for a belated Capital City Pick Nick, I'm game, anyone I've missed from meetups give me a shout, anyone i owe CDs to shout louder, hee hee. Love to all, most of all Honey, who does a tip top job. Everyone pull your trousers up now, red knicker day is over. Paul McCartney? yep. the Pope? possibly. Sinister people? maybe not. Hugs, Niko xoox __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister@missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo@missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-+ Snipp snapp snut, sa var sagan slut! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+